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PRIDE Industries
Author: Arnheiter, Edward D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
PRIDE, a non-profit enterprise that hired workers with disabilities, wished to earn business and reputation based on the universal measures used by customers worldwide — price, quality and delivery — while maintaining its social mission...
Sanatkada: Giving Wings to Dreams
Authors: Singh, Smita; Kriplani, Nikita; Anand, Abhinav
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
While commercial activity is one goal of Sanatkada, its founder feels very strongly about issues related to women's empowerment and has also brought a not-for-profit component to the business. This hybrid model of doing business is difficult to balance. The goal of the case is to work out the possible alternatives that would enable Sanatkada's founder to retain the spirit of Sanatkada, while simultaneously empowering her staff and making the social initiatives self-sustainable.
Sony PlayStation: Security Breach
Authors: Seijts, Jana; Bigus, Paul
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
In April 2011, Sony’s PlayStation and Qriocity services were attacked by an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into the company network, compromising user account information. Although brief statements about the issue were posted on the PlayStation blog site, Sony did not publicly disclose the full extent of the security breach or the expected date when network services might return to normal, leaving many people speculating if personal or financial information had been illegally obtained...
Why Women Still Can’t Have It All
Author: Slaughter, Anne-Marie
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Atlantic
Publication Year: 2012
It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here’s what has to change.
Peter Jepsen
Authors: Stevenson, Howard H.; Roberts, Michael J.; Sharpe, James M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
About to break bank covenants, Peter Jepsen has to deal with a contentious prior owner, improve profitability and staff appropriately all while maintaining credibility with his investors, in the furniture hardware company he has owned for less than a year...
Goldlake Eurocantera/Honduras
Authors: Erzurumlu, Sinan; Anderson, Marty; Carte, Assheton L. Stewart
Product Type: Cases
Source: Babson College
Publication Year: 2012
GOLD launched Goldlake, a mining industry investment company, through its subsidiary Eurocantera in Honduras. Goldlake considered its organizational goals to be commercial viability and the environmental and social impacts of its business decisions on reputational and financial value. This case focuses on how Goldlake developed values based on principles of human and environmental sensitivity, and how it turned the social innovation of community inclusiveness into a competitive advantage.
Coca-Cola FEMSA's Contribution to Peace
Authors: Gonzalez, Rosa Amelia; Layrisse, Francisco; Lozano, Gerardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Social Enterprise Knowledge Network
Publication Year: 2012
In 2003, the FEMSA Corporation – a Mexican company – acquired 100% of the shares of the largest franchise of the Coca-Cola system in Latin America, and placed itself at the lead of the sales of carbonated beverages and other soft drinks in different countries of South America, including Colombia, which had been struggling with armed groups since the 1970s. This case explores how Coca-Cola FEMSA included different initiatives in its sustainability strategy, aimed at supporting the process of peaceful demobilization...
A Note on Trust
Authors: Sharpe, James M.; Green, Charles H.
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The effective manager and leader understands and appreciates trust at both the personal and the organizational levels. Most managers focus more on being trusted than on trusting. The best way to be trusted is to be worthy of trust - to be trustworthy.
Boston Innovation District Turns Two
Author: Isenberg, Daniel J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Babson College
Publication Year: 2012
As Boston's Mayor Thomas Menino had repeated many times before many audiences, between his widely noted 2010 address and May 2012, "There has never been a better time for innovation in urban settings than now and there should be no better place than in Boston."
EcoPost: Financing a Green Startup in Africa
Authors: Sorensen, Jesper; Kennedy, Michael; Jorasch, Gina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, EcoPost manufactures construction posts out of the thousands of tons of plastic waste produced daily by the city. However, they face many obstacles overcoming skepticism from investors, largely because of their relatively poor financial record keeping...
o.b.: The Case of the Missing Tampons
Authors: Weil, Mary; Seijts, Jana; Bigus, Paul
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The chief executive officer of a large consumer health conglomerate faces a controversial situation. Loyal consumers of a feminine hygiene product are outraged when they learn that a highly coveted product has been permanently discontinued...
The Christchurch Earthquake and Crusaders Rugby (A, B)
Author: Bryant, Murray J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
On February 2011, a large earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand, causing loss of life. The Crusaders, a major sports franchise headquartered in Christchurch, must plan for the season, given that its facility has been extensively damaged and the season has already commenced. The franchisee board, managers, coaches and players have to deal with this catastrophe and build morale in the community by deciding what to do.
Can There Be “Good” Corporations?
Author: Kelly, Marjorie
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: YES! Magazine
Publication Year: 2012
When companies are owned by workers and the community—instead of Wall Street financiers—everything changes.
Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience
Authors: Carroll, Archie B.; Lipartito, Kenneth J.; Post, James E.; Werhane, Patricia H.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2012
Today, it is expected that a corporation will be transparent in its operations; that it will reflect ethical values that are broadly shared by others in society; and that companies will enable society to achieve environmental sustainability as well as a high standard of living. As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, the social, political and economic landscape is once again shifting: the need for an informed public conversation about what is expected of the modern corporation has never been greater.
Paragon Legal: A New Model (A, B)
Authors: Soule, Sarah A.; Correll, Shelley J.; Schifrin, Debra
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The case is about the San Francisco-based law firm, Paragon Legal, founded by lawyer and entrepreneur Mae O'Malley. Paragon Legal gave high-level attorneys the opportunity to have a flexible schedule and work 10 to 40 hours a week. This was in the context of an industry that typically required very long hours and had inflexible schedules and serious penalties for stepping out of the field for any length of time. Eighty-five percent of Paragon Legal attorneys were women with children, but the firm also attracted women and men without children who wanted to find a work/life balance.
Cutting out the Middle-Man: The Case for Direct Business Involvement in Environmental Justice
Authors: McCrory, Martin A.; Langvardt, Kyle T.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Employing as a jumping-off point a recent high-profile and multi-faceted scandal involving Penn State University and decision makers affiliated with it, this article explores a number of ethical decision making lessons to be learned from that scandal and considers how those lessons can be applied to a variety of decisions faced by corporate leaders...
Three Lessons of Ownership
Author: Carleton, Tamara
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2012
Can your company truly build and sustain that early founding feeling, in which everyone continues to feel vested as the scale of the organization changes? Drawing from a research study funded by the Foundation for Enterprise Development, the author discovered that federal government contractor Science Applications International Corporation, known as SAIC, provides an astounding example of ownership culture at work three decades after its inception.
LGBTA at Toronto-Dominion Bank in 2012
Authors: Maurer, Cara C.; Cornies, Andrew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
This case concerns the implementation and strategic direction of LGBTA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and ally) initiatives at TD Bank Financial Group...
Enbridge Michigan Oil Spill: Patrick Daniel's Challenge (A, B)
Authors: Seijts, Gerard; Watson, Thomas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
In 2010, approximately 20,000 barrels of oil being shipped south by Enbridge spilled into Michigan’s Talmadge Creek, contaminating wetlands around Battle Creek and the nearby county seat of Marshall, including a stretch of the Kalamazoo River. The CEO of Enbridge faced an almost impossible challenge. He needed to prove to American citizens — and to industry regulators, market watchers, company shareholders and Enbridge employees — that his company deserved to be judged on its own merits, not as a Canadian version of BP.
License to Cheat: Voluntary Regulation and Ethical Behavior
Authors: Gino, Francesca; Krupka, Erin L.; Weber, Roberto A.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
One powerful tool, at least in theory, that policymakers can rely on to stem cheating is regulation through monitoring and sanctions. But regulation does not really help when individuals and firms who are supposed to be regulated may have the ability to determine how much regulation they face, or even whether they face it at all. This paper studies what happens when individuals can avoid or circumvent regulation and monitoring intended to curb unethical conduct.
Wheeling Cardiology Associates
Authors: Young, David W.; Gillette, Thomas P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Crimson Group
Publication Year: 2012
This is a case about three cardiology groups that are proposing to merge. One issue is antitrust, and the benefits and motives for the proposed merger can be debated. A second issue is one of ethics...
The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public
Author: Stout, Lynn A.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Year: 2012
Executives, investors, and the business press routinely chant the mantra that corporations are required to “maximize shareholder value.” The results have been disastrous. “Shareholder primacy” thinking causes corporate managers to focus myopically on short-term earnings reports at the expense of long-term performance; discourages investment and innovation; harms employees, customers, and communities; and causes companies to indulge in reckless, sociopathic, and socially irresponsible behaviors. It’s the kind of thinking that led directly to the recent worldwide economic collapse. Jack Welch, once a shareholder primacy true believer, has famously called it “the dumbest idea in the world.”
Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum
Author: UN Global Compact
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: United Nations Global Compact; Maplecroft
Publication Year: 2012
The Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum aims to enhance our collective understanding of human rights themes and to stimulate discussion about the dilemmas responsible multi-national companies may face in their efforts to respect and support human rights when operating in emerging economies.
Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The National Academies Press
Publication Year: 2012
No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience--the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. Although disasters will continue to occur, actions that move the nation from reactive approaches to disasters to a proactive stance where communities actively engage in enhancing resilience will reduce many of the broad societal and economic burdens that disasters can cause.
Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A)
Authors: Jones, Geoffrey G.; Ghanem, Lana
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The case is concerned with Elia Nuqul, the founder of Jordanian-based Nuqul Brothers, a large diversified business group. The case is positioned within the wider context of the regional conflict in Palestine and Israel, and it provides a vehicle for exploring the role and responsibility of entrepreneurs, if any, in such conflicts...
Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution
Author: Kelly, Marjorie
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Year: 2012
Looking around at the wreckage left in the wake of the world economy’s latest crisis, veteran business journalist Marjorie Kelly noticed that some institutions were left relatively unscathed. What did they have in common? The key, Kelly realized, is seemingly obscure: ownership. Prominent among the survivors were organizations that combined the flexibility of traditional private ownership with a focus on the common good...
RLEK: Survival with the Real Bottom Line
Authors: Mukhopadhyay, Jiban; Garg, Mayank; Oli, Saumya; Kumar, Amit
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The case briefs the reader on RLEK’s background as a non-governmental organization, the reason for its inception, and its current methodology and strategy. The case also discusses the various problems faced by RLEK in its day-to-day operations, including intense competition, employee attrition, non-streamlined operations, and challenges to its operating principle of “the real bottom line”...
Lehman Brothers’ Fall
Authors: Kakani, Ram Kumar; Singhania, Vasudha; Stack, Martin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
This case describes the financial undertakings of Lehman Brothers Inc., which was once the fourth-largest investment bank in the world. On September 15, 2008, less than a year after the bank presented its largest profit ever, the world watched its decline...
Vietnam Handicraft Initiative: Moving Toward Sustainable Operations
Authors: Easter, Sarah; Dato-on, Mary Conway
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
A recent MBA graduate has just received a one-year business assignment as a business development and marketing advisor to work with the Vietnam Handicraft Initiative (VHI), a vocational training and employment center for people with disabilities, located in Central Vietnam. Her job is to assist the VHI to increase its productivity, become sustainable and strengthen the capacity of the organization through improved business and marketing plans...
Cadbury: An Ethical Company Struggles to Insure the Integrity of Its Supply Chain
Authors: Chatterjee, Sumana; Elias, Jaan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Yale School of Management
Publication Year: 2008
In 2000 and 2001, revelations that the production of cocoa in the Côte d’Ivoire involved child slave labor set chocolate companies, consumers, and governments reeling. The stories of child slave labor on Côte d’Ivoire cocoa farms hit Cadbury especially hard. Furthermore, Cadbury’s culture had been deeply rooted in the religious traditions of the company’s founders, and the organization had paid close attention to the welfare of its workers and its sourcing practices.
Equal Exchange: Doing Well by Doing Good© – Case Notes
Authors: Harris, Benita W.; Manz, Karen P.; Shipper, Frank; Manz, Charles C.
Product Type: Notes
Source: Foundation for Enterprise Development
Publication Year: 2012
Case notes to accompany the case "Equal Exchange: Doing Well by Doing Good©."
Equal Exchange: Doing Well by Doing Good©
Authors: Harris, Benita W.; Manz, Karen P.; Shipper, Frank; Manz, Charles C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Foundation for Enterprise Development
Publication Year: 2012
In 1983, Rink Dickinson, Jonathan Rosenthal, and Michael Rozyne were all recent college graduates and working for a food co-op warehouse in the Boston area. They began to question the system, asking “What if food could be traded in a way that is honest and fair, a way that empowers both farmers and consumers? What if trade supported family farms' use of organic methods rather than methods that harm the environment?” It became apparent to them that if they were going to pursue their vision, they were going to have to develop an organization...
Food and Agriculture: The Future of Sustainability
Authors: Giovannucci, Daniele; Scherr, Sara; Nierenberg, Danielle; Hebebrand, Charlotte; Shapiro, Julie; Milder, Jeffrey; Wheeler, Keith
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2012
On our current trajectory, severe disruptions to national and regional food systems are highly probable - the question is when. This report focuses on vital areas of risk and offers a collection of up-to-date information on the current and likely trends for our global food and agriculture systems.
Because It's Right: Effective Arguments for Green Supply Chains
Author: Knowledge@W.P. Carey
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Knowledge@W.P. Carey
Publication Year: 2012
The effectiveness of environmental advocates inside organizations depends a great deal on their choice of influence tactics, and some of the most promising options are often overlooked...
Self-Serving Altruism? When Unethical Actions That Benefit Others Do Not Trigger Guilt
Authors: Gino, Francesca; Ayal, Shahar; Ariely, Dan
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Not a day goes by without the revelation of unethical behavior by a politician, movie star, professional athlete, or high-ranking executive. This paper asks: Is a person's willingness to cross ethical lines influenced by the presence of others who may benefit?
H-E-B: Creating a Movement to Reduce Obesity in Texas
Authors: Alvarez, Jose B.; Riis, Jason; Salmon, Walter J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
In January 2012, H-E-B Grocery Co., a private retail chain with stores located in Texas and Mexico, was introducing its Healthy at H-E-B program to its customers. What CEO Craig Boyan had in mind was creating a state-wide healthy-living movement in Texas, where obesity was high relative to other states in the U.S. But how far to go with its employees and customers was a question that President and COO Craig Boyan and his team struggled with.
EnerNOC: DemandSMART
Authors: Toffel, Michael W.; Fabrizio, Kira; van Sice, Stephanie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
EnerNOC is an energy company with an innovative business model: it serves as an intermediary between electric utilities and electricity users. It contracts with electricity users willing to reduce demand during periods of peak energy demand, and sells this as excess capacity to electric utilities. The case enables students to evaluate the EnerNOC's business model—including its environmental implications—and the potential impact of fracking on its business...
Practitioner Conduct: The Need for Open Debate
Author: Hoffmire, John
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: The Journal of Employee Ownership Law and Finance, vol. 2, no. 2
Publication Year: 1990
This paper addresses the topic of ESOP practitioner conduct in the hopes of raising some issues and providing food for thought...
Practice Note: Questions and Answers Regarding ESOPs for Family Businesses
Authors: Hoffmire, John; Willis, James; Gilbert, Ronald
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Family Business Review, 5:173-180
Publication Year: 1992
Assessing the applicability of employee stock ownership plans for a family firm requires a basic understanding of their characteristics, followed by a careful analysis of the costs and benefits in the specific case. This note provides general information and offers guides for the critical, specific questions an adviser or owner should ask.
ESOP Implementation in Socialist Countries: Experience from the U.S.S.R. and Yugoslavia
Authors: Ellerman, David P.; Hoffmire, John
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Employee Stock Ownership Plans: 1990 Yearbook, pp. Y22-1-Y22-21
Publication Year: 1990
Translating the ESOP concept to socialist countries is much more difficult than, say, just translating American laws into Russian. The concept of employee ownership has to be reduced to its essentials and then creatively reapplied in the context of the legal and institutional environment of socialist countries.
Using Earn-Outs to Implement ESOPs in Emerging Market Economies
Author: Hoffmire, John
Product Type: Notes
Source: The ESOP Association 13th Annual Convention
Publication Year: 1990
Earn-outs can be an important tool in the development of ESOPs in the international community.
Employee Ownership Indices and Investment Funds in the U.S. 1992–Present
Author: Hoffmire, John
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Sixth European EO Conference
Publication Year: 2006
Provides a detailed slide presentation related to the history and experience os employee ownership indices and mutual funds in the United States.
Employee Ownership as a Competitive Strategy
Author: Hoffmire, John
Product Type: Notes
Source: Országos MRP Konferencia, Budapest
Publication Year: 1993
This table provides a summary of employee ownership as a competitive strategy. In it, the relationship between a company's strategic imperatives, such as productivity and cost control, and specific ESOP strategies are detailed.
JP Morgan: Lessons Learned
Author: Sapp, Stephen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Following the revelation of a US$2 billion loss on trading at JP Morgan’s chief investment office in London, the company’s board of directors is tasked with recommending changes to its risk management practices and corporate governance structure...
Ethical Leadership and the Dual Roles of Examples
Author: Langvardt, Arlen W.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Through the examples they set, leaders do a great deal to shape–for good or for ill–the culture of the organizations in which they serve. Employing as a jumping-off point a recent high-profile and multi-faceted scandal involving Penn State University and decision makers affiliated with it, this article explores a number of ethical decision making lessons to be learned from that scandal and considers how those lessons can be applied to a variety of decisions faced by corporate leaders...
Mobius Motors: Building an African Car
Authors: Sorensen, Jesper; Kennedy, Michael; Jorasch, Gina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Mobius Motors manufactures and sells low-cost cars in the Kenyan market. However, Mobius's fleet of vehicle is still currently very small, and the company faces many strategic challenges on both the demand and the supply side of the business.
Acknowledging Religious Diversity: Opportunities and Challenges
Authors: Gelb, Betsy D.; Longacre, Teri Elkins
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Business Horizons
Publication Year: 2012
Because federal law protects an employee's right to religious accommodation, managers cannot ignore the issue of religious diversity. The matter is far broader than simple legal compliance, though...
Why Are Business Leaders Prioritising Sustainability?
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Temple Group; Sustainable Business; Edie.net
Publication Year: 2012
Despite economic pressures, sustainability remains very firmly on the boardroom agenda. This report examines the current sustainability landscape to investigate where boardroom priorities actually are, how deeply embedded sustainability has become, or remained, in business operations and how that will change over the next few years.
A Culture of Ownership: What Is It, and How Is It Implemented in Modern Business?
Author: Mathews, Anthony
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Publication Year: 2011
After completing the course, students will have an understanding of the numerous techniques of information sharing and participative management which seem to define an ownership culture.
Sustaining Employee Ownership: Factors That Affect Its Effect and Its Future
Author: Mathews, Anthony
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Publication Year: 2011
After completing the course, students will have an understanding of the factors that affect the long and short term lifespan of an employee owned company.
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